Wednesday, September 10, 2014

New York State Primary

By THOMAS KAPLAN

Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee, his girlfriend,
after voting in the New York primary at the Presbyterian Church of Mount
Kisco in Westchester County.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, captured the
Democratic primary over two law school professors, Zephyr Teachout and
Tim Wu.

Ms. Teachout, who has studied corruption, also assailed Mr. Cuomo over his office’s meddling into the work of the Moreland Commission,
an anticorruption panel that Mr. Cuomo created last year but then
abruptly shut down, a matter that is now being investigated by federal
prosecutors.

By JESSE McKINLEY

Democrats expelled one indicted lawmaker, held fast to another and reaffirmed their support for an embattled Bronx power broker.

In
November 2012, the Democrats seized a numeric advantage in the Senate
but were later foiled when the Independent Democratic Conference, a
breakaway group of Democrats, formed “a bipartisan power-sharing
agreement” with Republicans.